sudo apt-get update fail on Ubuntu 17.04

Asked 22/1, 2018 at 9:4 Answered 27/2, 2018 at 20:7

Solved linux ubuntu apt-get ubuntu-17.04

While running the sudo apt-get update on ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus, I am getting the following error. I have posted on the error lines. I wanted to install python libraries like matplotlib and tkinter which failed to installed because above command wasn't running succesfully. Please suggest me what to do.

Err:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8001::14 80]
Err:25 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Err:81 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Err:113 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/main amd64 Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
Reading package lists... Done
W: The repository 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
W: The repository 'http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-security/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8001::14 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-updates/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty-backports/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8001::21 80]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Ethos answered 22/1, 2018 at 9:4 Comment(6)

Use AskUbuntu for this. SO is not the right place for this. – Subjectivism 22/1, 2018 at 9:23

Was wondering if this is because 17.04 is no longer getting support and I was getting a prompt to update to 17.10 – Ethos 24/1, 2018 at 10:19

@AyushKumar Yes, this is it! See here for instructions. – Pygidium 26/1, 2018 at 22:10

@YoanTournade Yes, I figured it out as I couldn't find any solution for this, so I upgraded to 17.10 yesterday. Turns out that 17.04 was no longer getting support from Ubuntu. – Ethos 27/1, 2018 at 4:9

Followed this and was able to fix it. askubuntu.com/questions/999856/… – Pole 22/5, 2018 at 11:16

in my case below link helped me. askubuntu.com/questions/999856/… – Pole 22/5, 2018 at 11:17

17.04 isn't getting further support from Ubuntu. So, the solution that worked for me was to upgrade it to 17.10 as none other solutions helped.

Ethos answered 27/1, 2018 at 4:13 Comment(0)

you can solve it by: just replace us.archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com in /etc/apt/sources.list with old-releases.ubuntu.com and then you'll be able to finish updating.

refer to source 1 and ubuntu forum

it work for me

Marginal answered 31/1, 2018 at 6:44 Comment(1)

Did that, but it didn't worked for me. I eventually upgraded to 17.10 – Ethos 31/1, 2018 at 13:13

In my case:

sed -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list 
sed -e 's/security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list

Saltus answered 5/2, 2018 at 1:17 Comment(2)

results in

W: Failed to fetch http://us.old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/zesty/InRelease  Could not resolve 'us.old-releases.ubuntu.com'

got include us. in the search pattern – Assibilate 3/7, 2018 at 0:10

somehow the find-and-replace didn't work well for me and encountered similar issue. So opened /etc/apt/sources.list, and replaced it manually to make the URLs as old-releases.ubuntu.com instead of us.old-releases.ubuntu.com and update command started working well. – Elder 28/3, 2019 at 19:4

In my case, I was able to download some of the packages by doing the following:

I had to replace "us.archive.ubuntu.com" and "security.ubuntu.com" in /etc/apt/sources.list WITH "old-releases.ubuntu.com" and then I was able to finish downloading some of the packages, like Ayush Kumar said.

For the other updates that were listed by my Hosting company, Linode, I used the following:

I had to use the --allow-unauthenticated flag with sudo apt-get update.

sudo apt-get update --allow-unauthenticated

Then I was able to finish updating.

Vaas answered 27/2, 2018 at 20:7 Comment(0)

17.04 isn't getting further support from Ubuntu. So, the solution that worked for me was to upgrade it to 17.10 as none other solutions helped.

Ethos answered 27/1, 2018 at 4:13 Comment(0)

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